Behavioral Finance Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons is the oldest independent publishing company in the United States With offices in North America, Europe, ­Australia, and Asia, Wiley is globally committed to developing and marketing print and electronic products and services for our customers’ professional and personal knowledge and understanding The Wiley Finance series contains books written specifically for finance and investment professionals as well as sophisticated individual investors and their financial advisors Book topics range from portfolio management to e-commerce, risk management, financial engineering, valuation and financial instrument analysis, as well as much more For a list of available titles, visit our website at www.WileyFinance.com Behavioral Finance Understanding the Social, Cognitive, and Economic Debates Edwin T Burton Sunit N Shah Cover image: © Michael Leynaud/Getty Images Cover design: Leiva-Sposato Copyright © 2013 by Edwin T Burton and Sunit N Shah All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600, or on the Web at www.copyright.com Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for your situation You should consult with a professional where appropriate Neither the publisher nor author shall be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages For general information on our other products and services or for technical support, please contact our Customer Care Department within the United States at (800) 762-2974, outside the United States at (317) 572-3993 or fax (317) 572-4002 Wiley publishes in a variety of print and electronic formats and by print-on-demand Some material included with standard print versions of this book may not be included in e-books or in print-ondemand If this book refers to media such as a CD or DVD that is not included in the version you purchased, you may download this material at http://booksupport.wiley.com For more information about Wiley products, visit www.wiley.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Burton, Edwin T   Behavioral finance : understanding the social, cognitive, and economic debates / Edwin T Burton   and Sunit N Shah    pages cm.—(Wiley finance series)  Includes index  ISBN 978-1-118-30019-0 (cloth); ISBN 978-1-118-33410-2 (ebk);  ISBN 978-1-118-33521-5 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-33192-7 (ebk)   1. Investments—Psychological aspects.  2.  Capital market—Psychological aspects.    3. Decision making. I.  Title  HG4521.B837 2013   332.01’9—dc23 2012041904 Printed in the United States of America 10 Contents Preface xi Introduction Part One Introduction to Behavioral Finance Chapter What Is the Efficient Market Hypothesis? Information and the Efficient Market Hypothesis Random Walk, the Martingale Hypothesis, and the EMH False Evidence against the EMH What Does It Mean to Disagree with the EMH? Chapter The EMH and the “Market Model” Risk and Return—the Simplest View The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) So What Is the Market Model? Chapter The Forerunners to Behavioral Finance The Folklore of Wall Street Traders The Birth of Value Investing: Graham and Dodd Financial News in a World of Ubiquitous Television and Internet 11 13 15 15 18 23 25 26 28 29 Part two Noise Traders Chapter Noise Traders and the Law of One Price The Law of One Price and the Case of Fungibility Noise 33 33 38 v vi Contents Chapter The Shleifer Model of Noise Trading The Key Components of the Shleifer Model Results Why the Shleifer Model Is Important Resolving the Limits to Arbitrage Dispute Chapter Noise Trading Feedback Models The Hirshleifer Model The Subrahmanyam-Titman Model Conclusion Chapter Noise Traders as Technical Traders Technical Traders as Noise Traders Herd Instinct Models Conclusion 43 44 49 50 51 53 53 58 62 65 67 72 76 Part III Anomalies Chapter The Rational Man Consumer Choice with Certainty Consumer Choice with Uncertainty The Allais Paradox Conclusion Chapter Prospect Theory The Reference Point The S-Curve Loss Aversion Prospect Theory in Practice Drawbacks of Prospect Theory Conclusion 81 81 84 90 92 93 93 94 96 98 98 100 Contents Chapter 10 Perception Biases Saliency Framing Anchoring Sunk Cost Bias Conclusion Chapter 11 Inertial Effects Endowment Effect Status Quo Effect Disposition Effect Conclusion Chapter 12 Causality and Statistics Representativeness Conjunction Fallacy Reading into Randomness Small Sample Bias Probability Neglect Conclusion Chapter 13 Illusions Illusion of Talent Illusion of Skill Illusion of Superiority Illusion of Validity Conclusion vii 101 101 103 106 108 109 111 111 116 119 120 123 123 127 129 131 133 134 135 135 138 139 141 142 Part IV Serial Correlation Chapter 14 Predictability of Stock Prices: Fama-French Leads the Way Testing the Capital Asset Pricing Model A Plug for Value Investing Mean Reversion—The DeBondt-Thaler Research Why Fama-French Is a Milestone for Behavioral Finance 147 147 149 151 152 viii Contents Chapter 15 Fama-French and Mean Reversion: Which Is It? The Month of January Is This Just About Price? The Overreaction Theme Lakonishok, Shleifer, and Vishny on Value versus Growth Is Overreaction Nothing More Than a “Small Stock” Effect? Daniel and Titman on Unpriced Risk in Fama and French Summing Up the Contrarian Debate Chapter 16 Short Term Momentum Price and Earnings Momentum Earnings Momentum—Ball and Brown Measuring Earnings Surprises Why Does It Matter Whether Momentum Is Price or Earnings Based? Hedge Funds and Momentum Strategies Pricing and Earnings Momentum—Are They Real and Do They Matter? Chapter 17 Calendar Effects January Effects The Other January Effect The Weekend Effect Preholiday Effects Sullivan, Timmermann, and White Conclusion 155 155 157 157 158 159 164 165 167 167 168 170 173 174 174 177 178 180 181 182 183 184 Part V Other Topics Chapter 18 The Equity Premium Puzzle Mehra and Prescott What About Loss Aversion? Could This Be Survivor Bias? Other Explanations 187 187 190 191 192 Contents Are Equities Always the Best Portfolio for the Long Run? Is the Equity Premium Resolved? Chapter 19 Liquidity A Securities Market Is a Bid-Ask Market Measuring Liquidity Is Liquidity a Priced Risk for Common Stocks? Significance of Liquidity Research Chapter 20 Neuroeconomics Capuchin Monkeys Innateness Versus Culture Decisions Are Made by the Brain Decisions versus Outcomes Neuroeconomic Modeling More Complicated Models of Brain Activity The Kagan Critique Conclusion Chapter 21 Experimental Economics Bubble Experiments Endowment Effect and Status Quo Bias Calendar Effects Conclusion Conclusion And the Winner Is? The Semi-Strong Hypothesis—Prices Accurately Summarize All Known Public Information Can Prices Change if Information Doesn’t Change? Is the Law of One Price Valid? Three Research Agendas The Critics Hold the High Ground What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go From Here? (What Have We Not Learned?) A Final Thought Index ix 193 194 195 196 197 199 200 201 201 203 203 205 206 208 208 209 211 212 215 216 216 217 217 219 220 221 223 223 227 230 231 228 Other Topics intermediaries who supported the housing bubble of 2003–2007 But is this what started the bubble in the first place? That case is rarely made and is not plausible More likely, something else got the housing bubble started, something as simple as recently rising prices We need to understand how a bubble gets started and if there are any objective ways of ascertaining when a bubble is taking place ■■ What sustains a bubble? Bubbles typically are fueled by substantial leverage Even though every new regulatory regime promises to remove speculative leverage activity from the system, this never seems to work out as planned When a bubble gets rolling, it always seems to find the financing that will sustain it, regardless of the regulatory regime in place One answer could be that regulations are too laxly enforced once the bubble takes hold Another potential answer is other lending institutions come into existence to replace those unavailable because of the regulatory environment Whatever the truth, future research should try to learn more about the theory and the facts of what sustains a financial bubble ■■ How bubbles end, and what kind of recovery from a bubble would there be if there were no change in the regulatory regime? This is a question that rarely gets asked and may not be answerable, since the normal course of affairs is substantial new regulation after a financial collapse But there are some examples historically where no regulatory activity of substance took place after a financial collapse It would be worthwhile finding out what happened in some detail in those cases Rethinking Decision Theory Foundations of Finance Loss aversion seems to be a fact of life One suspects that loss aversion and its implications are no longer controversial If that is the case, how can we reconcile and incorporate loss aversion into finance theory? At the moment, loss aversion is left in a kind of ad hoc limbo, without being incorporated into a more general approach to decision theory What role should regret play in decision theory? Much of what is needed is purely theoretical, armchair research into the foundations of decision theory Behavioral finance has produced convincing evidence that decisions are made in ways that are fundamentally and systematically different from what we assume in financial economics Is a new synthesis possible? Do Our Biases Have Welfare Implications? A recent book by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein suggests that our biases have welfare implications and that government policy remedies can improve And the Winner Is? 229 welfare by taking account of these biases We need a lot more research in this area There is a danger that pointing out irrationalities, biases, and mistakes in decision making can be a pretext for increasing the role of government where such an increase may actually reduce welfare, not improve it This could even be the unintended consequence of Thaler and Sunstein’s well-meaning efforts Even with traditional utility assumptions of risk aversion, one could argue that if people really are risk averse, they will end up with significantly less wealth in the long run Maximizing expected value seems a better plan, especially if life consists of many uncorrelated bets Should one respect expected outcomes or free choice? Sometimes what seems a clearly preferred action may not be if it impinges on an individual’s freedom of choice The freedom to make a mistake is a legitimate one not to be disparaged With the appropriate caveats, it nonetheless is important to follow the thread of biases to discover what impact systematic biases have on individual welfare Maybe a bias helps us, but more often, one suspects, our biases may harm us Learning the implications may have an educational effect that improves welfare by making such information available to people Can Professional Money Management Provide Value? One might think that this is a settled issue So much research has confirmed the inability of the average mutual fund and average money manager to beat simple indices that one might think the discussion was over But, there are new players with not enough data to yet make a complete determination Hedge funds are the most prominent of the new managers, but private equity managers raise similar performance questions We need to continue to study the entire money management industry including hedge funds, private equity funds, and other funds in the alternative asset management industry to assess performance It is also possible that money management itself is subject to the biases similar to those that have been discovered for individuals It is worth taking a deeper look into the financial service industry This is an industry that consumes enormous resources and seems to have a major impact on the global economy Whether or not firms themselves might be subject to systematic biases and irrationalities is a subject worth exploring Feedback Effects While there have been several attempts in the behavioral finance literature to explore the feedback effects from asset prices back into real productive activities, so far these have not met with great success If asset prices 230 Other Topics diverge from fundamental value, those firms favored with higher than warranted asset pricing end up wasting resources or does something of value occur as a result of the asset mispricing? One suspects the former, not the latter But perhaps a Schumpeterian type of creative creation takes place Perhaps things get built that would not have been built and that, for scale reasons, leads to some good outcomes that might not have occurred otherwise Even Kahneman suggests that overoptimistic entrepreneurs may actually provide a beneficial impact on the economy Keynes’s animal spirits seem in tune with Kahneman’s suggestion Having prices exceed fundamental value could easily interact with over-optimism and provide some positive effect on the economy On the other hand, it is certainly possible that mispricing might be generally harmful to economic efficiency, but it still seems worthwhile to explore this issue without assuming the answer in advance Experimental Economics May Be One of the Most Useful Laboratories Our final observation is that experimental economics may be the best laboratory to study some aspects of financial markets So far, the ability to create bubbles in experimental settings has yielded interesting research results One suspects that much more can be learned Economies are finite and few in number, and repeated and controlled experiments are nearly impossible, even in a data-rich world such as finance There is room for experimental economics to greatly improve our understanding of finance A Final Thought Perhaps the best way to think about behavioral finance and the EMH is to use whichever best serves the immediate purpose If the goal is to understand why people sell winners, not losers, then behavioral finance seems best positioned to provide an answer However, if one wishes to know why a stock with higher earnings growth commands a higher price/earnings multiple, the EMH seems to provide the best framework for producing an answer The right tool to use may well depend on the question being posed This can be disconcerting if what is desired is a grand, overarching theory that explains everything Hopefully, future research in finance will improve our understanding of these issues Index Above average effect, 140 Abreu-Brunnermeier model, 75–76 Ackert, Lucy F., 215 Addiction, neuroeconomics and, 203, 204 Agnew, Julie R., 192 Alexander, Shaun, 136 Allais, Maurice, 90 Allais paradox, 90–92 American Finance Association, Black’s address to, 38–41 Anchoring, perception bias and, 106–108 Anderson, Lisa R., 216 Anomalies, causality and statistics, 123–134 illusions, 135–143 inertial effects, 111–121 perception biases, 101–110 prospect theory, 93–100 utility function and rationality, 81–92 Anwar, Yunita, 182 Arbitrage profit, fungibility and, 33–38 Arbitrageurs: Abreu-Brunnermeier model and, 75–76 as rational traders, in Shleifer model, 45–46, 49, 225–226 Arrow, Kenneth, 88 Balduzzi, Pierluigi, 192 Ball, Ray, 162–163, 168–170, 175 Barber, Brad, 138 Base building (reversal pattern), 70–71 Base rates, conditional probability and, 124–127 Behavioral finance, 1–2 forerunners of, 25–30 Behavioral finance and efficient market hypothesis, compared, 217–230 additional research needs, 227–230 contrarian investing and calendar effect, 222 decision making and Kahneman and Tversky, 222 law of one price and, 220–221 lessons from behavioral research, 223–227 noise trader research, 221 price and information changes, 219–220 semi-strong hypothesis and, 217–219 Beta: in CAPM, 19–222, 147–149 common use of, 22 Bias See Perception biases Bid-offer spreads, 160–164 Black, Fischer, 38–41, 47–48 Bleichrodt, H., 98 Blume, Marshall, 160 Bodie, Zvi, 194 Boesky, Ivan, 231 232 Book-to-market values, issue of market predictability and, 147–151, 164–165 Brain, neuroeconomics and decisions, 203–205 Brees, Drew, 137 Brooks, Chris, 182 Brown, Phillip, 168–170, 170, 175 Bubbles, in stock prices: EMH and behavioral finance compared, 225–226 experimental economics and, 212–215 future research needs, 227–228 herd instinct models, 75–77 lack of perception during, law of one price and, 220–221 noise traders and, 221 Buffett, Warren, 11, 29, 223 Calendar effects, 177–184 data mining and, 183–184 EMH and behavioral finance compared, 226–227 experimental economics and, 216 future research needs, 222 January effects, 177–180 “other January effect,” 180–181 predictability and, 219 preholiday effects, 181–183 weekend effect, 181–182 Camerer, Colin, 205, 209 Cancel-out phenomenon, technical trading and, 71–72 Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), 18–23 as “accepted” but unsupported theory, 22–23 equation explained, 18–20 interpretation of, 20–22 predictability and, 147–149 Index Capuchin moneys, neuroeconomics and, 201–203 Cascades, in SubrahmanyamTitman model, 59–61, 62 Causality and statistics, 123–134 conjunction fallacy, 127–128 probability neglect, 133–134 reading into randomness, 129–131 representativeness, 123–127, 141 small sample bias, 131–133 Certainty, utility function and choice with, 81–84 Chan, Louis, 170–172 Chang, Kevin, 69–70 Chartered Financial Analyst, 67 Chartered Market Technician (CMT), 67 Charting See Technical analysis Charupat, Narat, 215 China, January effect and, 180 Chong, Ryan, 183 Chordia, Tarun, 172 Church, Bryan K., 215 Cognitive illusions See Illusions Cohen, Jacob, 132 Comparability, utility theory and, 82–83 Conclusions, drawn from information See Causality and statistics Conditional probability, 124–127 Confirmation bias, 137 Conjunction bias, 128 Conjunction fallacy, 127–128 Conrad, Jennifer, 160, 162, 163 Constantinides, George, 199–200 Contrarian investing, 155–165 future research needs, 222 illiquidity and, 199–200 January and, 155–157 Index overreaction hypothesis and, 151–154, 157, 159–164 price and book-to-market value, 157 unpriced risk and, 164–165 value versus growth, 158–159 Control, illusion of, 142 Cooper, Michael J., 180–181 Coursey, D L., 216 Culture, biases and neuroeconomics, 202, 203 Cumulative abnormal stock return (ABR), 171–172, 175 Cumulative average return (CAR), 162 Current price/current market, 196 Czech Republic, calendar effects and, 182 Daniel, Kent, 164–165 Data mining: calendar effects and, 183–184 momentum and, 174, 226 De Bondt, Werner F M.: cumulative average return and, 162, 177 LSV and value versus growth, 158–159 predictability and mean reversion, 150–154, 156– 157, 165 Deaves, Richard, 215 “Decision making under uncertainty,” 85 Decisions, versus outcomes, 205–206 Dimensional Advisory Fund, 158 Disappointment, prospect theory and effect of, 99, 100 Disposition effect, 119–120, 179, 222, 224 233 DiTraglia, Francis J., 216 Diversification: in CAPM, 21–22 Markowitz model and, 18 Dividends, Shiller model and herd trading, 72–75 D’Mello, Ranjan, 179–180 Dodd, David, 28–29, 150, 155, 165 Dollery, Brian, 182 “Double auction” market, experiments and, 212–213 Dufwenberg, Martin, 214 Dyl, E A., 216 Earnings drift, 170 Earnings momentum, 168–170, 172–173, 219 Economic theory, 13 EDGAR, 149 Efficient market hypothesis (EMH) See also Behavioral finance and efficient market hypothesis, compared behavioral finance and, 13 false evidence against, 11–12 financial theory and, 5–6, 65, 67 fungibility and, 36 market model and, 15–23 random walk and martingale process, 8–11 Shleifer model and, 51 three informational definitions of, 6–8, 13, 151, 173, 217–219 Endowment effect, 111–116, 215 Equilibrium See Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Equity premium puzzle, 187–194 EMH and behavioral finance compared, 225 future research needs, 222 loss aversion and, 190 234 Equity premium puzzle(continued) Mehra and Prescott and, 187–189 other explanations, 192–193 stocks in long run and, 193–194 survivor bias and, 191–192 Euler’s number, 89 Excess volatility, of prices, 74–75, 220 Expected earnings, basis for estimating, 170 Expected utility, 86–89 Allais paradox and, 90–92 Experience, bubble experiments and, 213–214 Experimental economics: basics of, 211–212 bubble experiments, 212–215 calendar effects, 216 endowment effect and status quo bias, 215 lessons of, 223–227, 230 Fama, Eugene, 217 CAPM and, 23, 147–149 January data and, 177 limits to arbitrage and, 47–48 LSV and value versus growth, 158–159 mean reversion issue, 152–154 noise traders and, 37 predictability and, 165 value investing and, 29 Feedback models, noise trading and, 53–63 future research needs, 229–230 Hirshleifer model, 53–58 Subrahmanyam-Titman model, 58–62 Fehr, Ernest, 206–207 Ferris, Stephen P., 179–180 Index Financial collapse (2008), 2, 5, 200 Financial crises and panics: EMH and behavioral finance compared, 225–226 future research needs, 227–228 illiquid investments versus liquid investment performance in, 200 Financial intermediation, theory of, 103 Financial news, 29–30 Finland, January effect and, 179 Firm, in Hirshleifer model, 54–55 Fisher, Irving, 27 Fitzgerald, Larry, 137, 218 Forming a top, 70–71 Framing, perception bias and, 103–106 French, Kenneth: CAPM and, 23, 147–149 January data and, 177 limits to arbitrage and, 47–48 LSV and value versus growth, 158–159 mean reversion issue, 152–154 predictability and, 165 value investing and, 29 Friedman, Milton: on currency markets and speculation, 36–37, 38, 40–41 limits to arbitrage and, 47–48 Fundamental analysis, defined, 65 Fungibility: assets in Shleifer model and, 44, 51 law of one price and, 33–38 Gage, Phineas, 202–203 Gains versus losses: indifference curves and, 115 risk aversion and, 94–96, 104, 224 235 Index Gao, Lei, 180 General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The (Keynes), 27 Gennaioli, Nicola, 102 George, Eddie, 136 Gerlach, Jeffrey R., 216 Glamour stocks, 158 Glassman, James, 193 Goetzmann, William N., 191–192, 194 Graham, Benjamin, 28–29, 150, 155, 165 Grinblatt, Mark, 179, 180 Gul, Faruk, 205 Gurkaynak, Refet S., 76 Hansen, Peter Reinhard, 178 Hassett, Kevin, 193 Haugen, Robert A., 178, 180 Head-and-shoulders pattern, 69–70 Heaton, John, 199–200 Hedge funds, price momentum and, 174 Herd instinct trading, 67, 72 Abreu-Brunnermeier model, 75–76 Shiller model, 72–75 Hirshleifer, David, 54 Hirshleifer model, 53–58 feedback models and, 53 firm in, 54–55 investors in, 55 results, 57–58 stakeholders in, 55–56, 58, 61 timing and, 56–57 Ho, Chong Mun, 182 Holden, Ken, 182 Holt, Charles, 211, 213 Hong, D., 172 Hong Kong, calendar effects and, 183 Hudson, Robert, 183 Huravy, Ernan, 215 Hwang, Chuan Yang, 179–180 Identical assets, market mispricing of: law of one price and, 33–41 Shleifer model as explanation for, 51 Illiquidity: contrarian investing and priced risk, 199–200 defined, 195 Illusions, 135–143 separating luck from talent, 142–143 of skill, 138–139 of superiority, 139–140 of talent, 135–138 of validity, 141–142 Index funds, money managers versus, 7–8, 218, 229 Indifference curves: crossing of, 113 non-reversibility of, 115 Indonesia, calendar effects and, 182 Inertial effects, 111–121 disposition effect, 119–120 endowment effect, 111–116 in Hirshleifer model, 223–224 status quo effect, 116–118 Inflation illusion, 173 Information: Black and noise traders versus, 38–41 conclusions drawn from (see Causality and statistics) Innateness, biases and neuroeconomics, 202, 203 236 Internet companies, Hirshleifer model and, 53–54 Invariance, failure of, 104–105 Investors, in Hirshleifer model, 55 Irrational investors, in Hirshleifer model, 55, 57–58 Island reversal, 69 January effect, 162, 177–180 experimental economics and, 216 mean reversion and, 155–157 Japan, calendar effects and, 182 Jegadeesh, Narasimhan, 168, 174, 177 Jensen’s inequality, 161–162 John J McConnell, 180–181 Jones, Paul Tudor, 26 Jordan, Michael, 137 Jorion, Philippe, 178, 180, 191–192 Journal of Economic Perspectives, 224 Kagan, Jerome, 208–209 Kahneman, Daniel, 217, 222, 223–224, 230 Allais paradox, 91 causality and statistics, 128, 132 illusion of talent and, 137, 139 illusion of validity and, 141 inertial effect, 112, 116 overreaction hypothesis, 157 perception bias, 103–105 prospect theory, 93, 100 Kaul, Gautum, 160, 162, 163 Keasey, Kevin, 183 Keillor, Garrison, 140 Keloharju, Matti, 179 Keynes, John Maynard, 27, 157, 230 Keynesian economics, Minsky and, 76–77 Index Kim, Tae-Hwan, 182 King, Ronald, 215 Kinney, William R Jr., 178 Kling, Gerhard, 180 Knetsch, Jack L., 112, 113 Kothari, S.P., 162–163 Lake Wobegon effect, 140 Lakonishok, Josef, 158–159, 170–172, 178, 183 Law of large numbers, 37, 71, 222 Law of one price, 33–41 EMH and behavioral finance compared, 220–221 fungibility and, 33–38 Law of small numbers, 132 Law of total probability, 125–127 Lean, HooiHooi, 182 Lee, C., 172 Lefèvre, Edwin, 26–27 Lehman bankruptcy, 200 Leniency effect, 140 Lewis, Michael, 224 Lewis, Ray, 136 Libertarian paternalism, 117, 206 Lim, Shiok Ye, 182 Lindquist, Tobias, 214 Liquidity, 195–200 financial crises and significance of research, 200 measuring of, 197–199 as priced risk for stocks, 199–200 securities market as bid-ask market, 196–197 as true price versus transaction price, 195 List, John A., 98 Littler, Kevin, 183 Livermore, Jessie, 27 Index Loser portfolios, in De Bondt and Thaler research, 156, 162–163, 165, 168 Loss aversion, 96–98, 100 EMH and behavioral finance compared, 225 equity premium puzzle and, 190, 194 future research needs, 222, 228 neuroeconomics and, 202 Lotteries, 85–89 Lucas, Deborah J., 199–200 Luck, illusions and, 136–137, 139, 142–143 Lunde, Asger, 178 Madden Curse, 135–137 Malaysia, calendar effects and, 182 Malkiel, Burton, 130, 138, 140, 217, 218 March effect, 180 Marginal utility, 89 Market capitalization, in CAPM, 20 Market model: CAPM and, 18–23 risk and return and Markowitz model, 15–18 Market participants, in Shleifer model of noise trading, 45–46 Market Technicians Association (MTA), 66–67 Markowitz, Harry, 15 Markowitz model, risk and return and, 15–18 Martingale process, 9–11, 147, 218–219, 222 McConnell, John J., 180–181 Mean reversion, 28, 29, 137–138 January effect and, 155–157 predictability and, 150–154, 219 Mehra, Rajnish, 187–189, 190 237 Mental accounting, 109, 119–120 Minsky, Hyman, 76–77 Momentum trading strategy, 27–28 See also Short-term momentum Mondays, calendar effects and, 177, 181, 191 Money managers, index funds versus, 7–8, 218, 229 Moneyball (Lewis), 224 Monotonic transformation, 83 Moore, Evan, 214 Moskowitz, Tobias J., 180 Mulyadi, Martin Surya, 182 Naïve investors, 104, 157–159, 226 Narasimhanm, Jegadeesh, 170–172 National Futures Association, 67 Neuroeconomics, 201–209 brain and decision-making, 203–205 capuchin moneys and, 201–203 decisions versus outcomes, 205–206 innateness versus culture and, 202, 203 Kagan critique and, 208–209 modeling and, 206–208 Noise traders and trading, 30 See also Technical traders, as noise traders feedback models and, 53–63 future research needs, 221 law of one price and, 33–41 noise trader agenda, 37–38, 41 noise trader, defined, 38 Shleifer model of noise trading, 43–51 Noussair, Charles, 215 238 Odean, Terrance, 138, 179 Order-imbalance measure, liquidity measurement and, 198–199 Ordinal functions, utility functions as, 83 Osler, Carol, 69–70 “Other January effect,” 180–181 Outcomes, decisions versus, 205–206 Outstanding stock, defined, 198 Overconfidence, illusion of talent and, 138–139 “Overlapping generations,” in Shleifer model, 47 Overreaction hypothesis, 151– 154, 157 small stocks and infrequent trading issues, 159–164 Ovtchinnikov, Alexei V., 180–181 Path dependence, loss aversion and, 97, 100 Patterns, reading into randomness and, 129–131 Perception biases, 101–110 anchoring, 106–108 framing, 103–106 future research needs, 228–229 saliency, 101–102, 225 sunk-cost bias, 108–109 Persand, Gita, 182 Pesendorfer, Wolfgang, 205 Polamalu, Troy, 137 Porter, David P., 215 Portfolio, frequency of checking of: loss aversion and, 190, 194 prospect theory and, 97–98 Predictability, of stock prices, 147–154 CAPM and, 147–149 EMH and behavioral finance compared, 218–219, 226–227 Index Fama-French and behavioral finance, 152–154 mean reversion and, 151–152, 153 value investing and, 149–151, 155–164 Preholiday effects, 181–183 Prescott, Edward C., 187–189 Price divergence, 36, 226 Abreu-Brunnermeier model, 75–76 noise trading and, 221 Shleifer and, 48 Price momentum, 167–168, 172–173, 173, 219 Prices, information-signaling function of, 1, 5–6, Primer inter pares effect, 140 Probability neglect, 133–134 Prospect theory, 93–100 bubble experiments and, 213–214 drawbacks of, 98–99 indifference curves and, 115 inertial effects and, 118–121 loss aversion and, 96–98, 100 in practice, 98 reference point and, 93–94, 100 S-curve, 94–96 Qspread, liquidity measurement and, 197–198 Quant funds, 174 Rabin, Matthew, 96 Random Walk Down Wall Street, A (Malkiel), 138 Random walk process, EMH and, 8–11 Rangel, Antonio, 206–207 Index Rational investors: in Hirshleifer model, 55 in Shleifer model, 45–46 Rationality, assumption of, Reading into randomness, 129–131 Reference point, prospect theory and, 93–94, 100, 104 neuroeconomics and, 202 status quo effect, 118 Regret: prospect theory and effect of, 99, 100, 108–110 status quo effect, 118 Regulatory initiatives, effect on bubbles and financial crises, 227–228 Reinhart, Carmen M., 76 Relative strength, of stock prices, 167–168 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Lefèvre), 26–27 Representativeness, 123–127, 141 Reservation price, 112, 115 Resource allocation, noise traders and, 62–63 Resource limitations, equity premium puzzle and, 192 Reversal patterns, in stock prices, 68–71 Risk and return: Markowitz model and, 15–18 rational traders, in Shleifer model, 45–46, 48, 50 Risk aversion See also Loss aversion bubble experiments and, 213 prospect theory and, 94 utility function and, 87–89 Risk preference, 190 Risk premium of portfolio, 19 Rogalski, Richard J., 181 Rogoff, Kenneth, 76 239 Roll, Richard, 22 Rooij, Martin van, 208 Royal Dutch common stock, law of one price and, 35, 220 Rozef, Michael S., 178 Ruangrit, Yuphin, 182 Russian default crisis, 200 Safe assets, in Shleifer model, 44–45 Saliency: EMH and behavioral finance compared, 225 perception bias and, 101–102 Samuelson, Paul, 47, 193, 194 Samuelson, William, 117 Saturday Evening Post, 26 Savage, Leonard, 90 SaveLTfromMadden.com, 136 S-curve, prospect theory and, 94–96 Secretary Problem, 107 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 149 Security Analysis (Graham and Dodd), 28–29 Semi-strong form, of EMH, 6–8, 13, 217–219 Serial correlation, past prices and: calendar effects, 177–184 contrarian investing and mean reversion, 155–165 Fama-French and predictability of stock prices, 147–154 short-term momentum, 167–175 Shanken, Jay, 162–163 Shell Oil common stock, law of one price and, 35, 220 Shiller, Robert, 72 Shiller model, 72–75 Shivakumar, Lakshmanan, 172 Shleifer, Andrei, 43, 51, 89, 102, 158–159, 217, 220, 225–226 240 Shleifer model of noise trading, 43–44, 63, 68 assets in, 44–45, 50–51 EMH and, 51 importance of, 50–51 limits of arbitrage and, 47–48 market participants in, 45–46, 225–226 model structure, 46–47 results of, 49–50 Short selling, bubble experiments and, 215 Short-term momentum, 28, 167–175 earnings momentum, 168–170 earnings surprises, 170–173 EMH and, 173, 174–175 hedge funds and, 174 price momentum, 167–168 Siegel, Jeremy, 193 Singapore, calendar effects and, 182 Skill, illusion of, 138–139 Slovakia, calendar effects and, 182 Slovenia, calendar effects and, 182 Small cap stocks, overreaction hypothesis and, 159–164 Small sample bias, 131–133 Smidt, Seymour, 178, 183 Smith, Vernon, 116, 212–214, 215 Smyth, Russell, 182 Sports Illustrated cover jinx, 136–137 Stakeholders: in Hirshleifer model, 55–56, 58 in Subrahmanyam-Titman model, 59 Stambaugh, Robert F., 160 Standardized unexpected earnings (SUE), 171–173, 175 Statistics See Causality and statistics Index Status quo bias: equity premium puzzle and, 192–193 experimental economics and, 215 neuroeconomics and, 206 Status quo effect, 116–118 Stock market, in 1987: behavior of and attempts to explain, 25–26 crash of, 5, 219–220 Stocks for the Long Run (Siegel), 193 Strong form, of EMH, Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar, 58 Subrahmanyam-Titman model, 58–62 basic model, 59 cascades and, 59–61, 62 feedback effect, 61–62 Suchanek, Gerry, 212–214 Sullivan, Ryan, 183–184 Sunk-cost bias: disposition effect, 119 perception bias and, 108–109 Sunstein, Cass, 117, 134, 206, 228–229 Superiority, illusion of, 139–140 Survivor bias, equity premium puzzle and, 191–192, 194 Swaminathan, B., 172 Szykman, Lisa R., 192 Tail risk, 174 Taiwan, calendar effects and, 182 Talent, illusion of, 135–138 Tax issues: equity premium puzzle and, 192 January effect and, 179–180 Technical analysis, 6–7 See also Technical traders, as noise traders 241 Index defined, 65 patterns and, 129–131 Technical traders, as noise traders, 65–77 herd instinct models, 72–77 reverse patterns in stock prices and, 68–71 systemic issues, 71–72 trend-following noise traders, 67–68 10-Q filings, with SEC, 149 Tetlock, Philip, 142 Thailand, calendar effects and, 182 Thaler, Richard, 165, 206, 223– 224, 228–229 anomalies and, cumulative average return and, 162 endowment effect, 111, 112, 117, 215 January effect and, 177, 178, 180 LSV and value versus growth, 158–159 predictability and mean reversion, 150–154, 156–157 Thompson, John, 182 Thorley, Stephen R., 194 Timing, Hirshleifer model and, 56–57 Timmermann, Allan, 183–184 Titman, Sheridan, 58, 174 January data and, 177 momentum and, 168 unpriced risk and, 164–165 Tomlinson, LaDanian, 136 Tonchev, Dimitar, 182 Transivity, utility theory and, 82–83 Trend-following noise traders, 67–68 Turnover measure, liquidity measurement and, 198 Tversky, Amos, 222, 223–224 Allais paradox, 91 causality and statistics, 128, 132 overreaction hypothesis, 157 perception bias, 103–105 Uncertainty: bubble experiments and, 212 utility function and choice with, 84–89 Unexpected income changes concept, 169–170 United Kingdom, calendar effects and, 183 Universality, utility theory and, 82–83 Unpriced risk, 164–165 Unsafe assets, in Shleifer model, 44–45 Utility function, 81–92 Allais paradox and, 90–92 bounded from above, 88–89 choice with certainty, 81–84 choice with uncertainty, 84–89 equity premium puzzle and, 188–189, 190 rationality and, Validity, illusion of, 141–142 Value investing, 28–29 See also Contrarian investing growth versus, 158–159 predictability and, 149–151 Van Boening, Mark, 215 Van Orden, Guy, 208 Virginia’s Retirement System, 117–118 Vishny, Robert, 102, 158–159 Volcker, Paul, 224 Voting paradox, 83 242 Wall Street Journal, 26 Weak form, of EMH, 6–8, 151, 173, 217, 222 Weekend effect, 181–182 White, Halbert, 183–184 Whitney, Richard, 224 Williams, Arlington, 212–214, 215 Window dressing, January effect and, 180 Index Winner’s Curse, The (Thaler), 111, 178 Wong, Wing-Keung, 182 “World market appreciation index,” 191–192 Zeckhauser, Richard, 117 Zhou, Haigang, 171 Zhu, John Qi, 171 ... question by the behavioralists The critique of received finance theory by behavioral finance advocates is broad, deep, and extensive Events in the real world of finance, such as the 1987 stock... attempting to persuade the reader that behavioral finance is the winner in its debate with more traditional finance This is not such a book We are not sympathetic to the behavioral finance position... Random Walk, the Martingale Hypothesis, and the EMH There is an alternative, mathematical view of the stock market related to the EMH The mathematical version begins with the idea that stock prices